Why go through winter breaking ice daily in your horse’s water bucket? The heavy foam insulation in this water bucket holder prevents water from freezing, allowing your horse to drink freely. The float top is easy for your horse to push down and helps reduce debris keeping the water circulating to prevent surface ice. This product comes with a standard 5 gallon water bucket but you can use it without the bucket and fill the holder itself with water. The convenient drain plug makes cleaning easy. A flat-back bucket will not fit in this holder.

It is a heavy solid base. You need two people to hang it due to the weight - or sit it on another 5 gallon bucket while installing. It comes with no screws or bolts. It's been great though. Our horses took to it immediately. Just lift the black bucket out to clean and just fill in place with a hose or carry another bucket to fill it. We use under cover in a stall- outside in the frigid temps - were not sure how it would do. Ok though we think.

Works super. These keep my water in the barn from freezing in our Michigan Winters. Added bonus! The horses drink more! Yay!These are sturdy and good looking. We fill the buckets with hot water, and even when it is down near 0, and the stall doors are open so the horses can go in and out from paddock to stall, if they are placed out of direct wind, the water does not freeze. It does help to fill with hot water as I think that warms up the insulation and makes them even more effective.

My horse has this in her stall year round, but especially in the winter it's useful. Keeps ice from forming anywhere in the water, but our barn is usually warm. I'd recommend this to someone who's barn manager is too lazy to crack waters.